Autumn River (秋江) woodblock print 1998 Mo Ce 莫测 Chinese, born 1928 Mo Ce is an Asian modern & contemporary artist. His work, including multi-block woodcut prints, has been featured in collections like those of the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his notable pieces, "Autumn River," is a woodcut print from 1998. Mo Ce's art often explores landscapes and themes of nature, with his work appearing in both auction houses like China Guardian Auctions and collaborative projects like the Sino-Japanese project "Ten Views of Guilin,". Woodblock printing on paper emerged in China around the seventh century as a way to preserve and copy Buddhist texts. Since that time, printmakers in East Asia have refined the technique by experimenting with color, size, and ways of bringing the ink and paper into contact with the block. Today, Chinese artists employ this time-honored medium to depict everything from landscapes to abstract forms. They also use different types of pigments to create varying degrees of opacity. This work comes from a portfolio that was commissioned in 1999 by the Muban Foundation in London to recognize the achievements of Chinese printmakers. This work demonstrates the woodblock print’s potential to connect the visual worlds of traditional and contemporary China.

Autumn River (秋江)
woodblock print
1998
Mo Ce 莫测
Chinese, born 1928

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